Re: About the GNU's project's path (Please let them under /usr/gnu )

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From: Peter Eriksson
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1992 22:53

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leisner@johnker.henr801@xerox.com (Marty Leisner x76704 siena) writes:

>I agree.  I put everything under /usr/gnu which gnu supports.

I do to. There is one small annoying thing I would like to see changed
though.. And that is that Gnu programs that install things in the
"${prefix}/lib" directory should split that up into two different
directories  "${prefix}/lib" for architecture-dependant things and
"${prefix}/var" (or etc or whatever) for things that are non-arch-dependant..

Right now we have to manually modify various Makefiles/sources and/or
create symbolic links from the lib-dir to the var-lib... Especially
since we mount the lib-dirs differently depending on the machine type.

For example Gcc2.0 puts the include files under the lib dir. GnuEmacs
puts executables in the etc directory...

>marty
>leisner.henr801c@xerox.com
>Member of the League for Programming Freedom
>(You get what you pay for -- except in software)

/Peter
--
Peter Eriksson                                              pen@lysator.liu.se
Lysator Computer Club                             ...!uunet!lysator.liu.se!pen
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From: pen@lysator.liu.se (Peter Eriksson)
Subject: Re: About the GNU's project's path (Please let them under /usr/gnu )
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